Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix compare_const_fl.cocci warnings

[Emil Velikov]

On 15 April 2016 at 15:20, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Christian KÃnig wrote:
>> Am 15.04.2016 um 09:15 schrieb Julia Lawall:
>> > Move constants to the right of binary operators.
>> >
>> > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/compare_const_fl.cocci
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> In general the patch looks ok, but do we have a documented preference where to
>> place constants in the coding style docs?
>>
>> While it's not so much of a problem any more with modern compilers, some
>> people still prefer to have it on the left side to catch accidental value
>> assignments.
>
> I don't know if it is documented.  Joe Perches suggested that on the right
> was better in general - maybe he knows if this is written somewhere.
>
> There are 504 occurrences of NULL == in the kernel, and 19524 occurrences
> of == NULL.
>
To throw in some more numbers:

>From drivers/gpu/drm/amd/ - ~40 for "NULL *== *" and ~400 for " *== *NULL" ;-)

-Emil